So, we get out to his Dad's house and after waiting around for about 45 minutes, we finally get two of his rifles and head out to the lease area so we can just mill around and shoot whatever. One rifle is an M14, pretty cool little gun with a 5 round clip and all, the other was a .243 scout sniper rifle... something.. that SWAT uses, and since it was my first time, I got to shoot first and took the sniper rifle.

Now, that being said, this is probably the first real gun I have shot that was not a .22 because I don't know many people that own guns they'd let me shoot, nor do I hunt. So I sit down because this thing is supposed to have a pretty powerful kick, look through the scope and carefully put my finger on the hair trigger, aim, and squeeze.

Next think I know something knocks me back and I feel something dripping from my forehead... turns out I put the scope a little too close and it gave me a nice gash which bled a good bit, onto my clothes unfortunately.

So, yeah, was pretty interesting, but, we cleaned it, got a band-aid, I shot a clip of the M14 and we soon left because we got out there late so it was getting dark anyways, heh.

The most interesting part was telling my mom about it, then going out to eat right after with a fairly saturated bandage on my brow.

Overall, it was a great day, especially because our Stats class got a kick out of laughing at people who pulled up to this locked gate in the parking lot which led to the other parking lots in front of the school. People would just sit there and look at it, and I'm sure they thought about trying to unlock it... but, it was humorous.